Another real tragedy....these two children left behind will bear the biggest brunt of this...one lost both parents within a short period of time.. this is another factor in the drug/mental health issues of our country that get less attention than warranted. Primarily the drugs are the seeds of so many issues, many of which lead to death. Mental health goes in all directions..
I am somewhat surprised she made it to 37...a muddy path to yesterday.. while there were attempts to make progress at different times, will it ever come to a point where, after identification of these problems, will we ever have a higher percentage of 'saves'...????

#2-726...could not agree more... I served my time in the Army before college starting at 17 (saved a lot of potentially wasted dollars at that point in my life), but was there during the first invasions in 1965 of VN..lots of kids came out of that, as well as other wars, that will never be the same in many diverse ways.... in college, on a Vets college working program, I worked at a psychiatric hospital, where kids the same age as me live there forever...and most without a purple heart event..!!! Mental situations and also recurrent admissions due to drugs because of the mental issues.. we easily call our troops to war over primarily 'political' issues, but once we rotate them out, I truly feel the real serious attention is actually only a band-aid in most cases... as we have progressed through the conflicts and wars since VN, it has only gotten worse... McCready is a sad result of the civilian side of the issues today, but, again, in total agreement deserves no more head line than any 1 troop that has given their time and as a result faces issues that we keep sweeping under the rug...!!!

#7..hmmmm, I will have to talk to a couple of contacts in the industry..!!! does have a good country ring to it...